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Lot Essay
Troost began his career as an actor, and his wife's family was also from the theatre, though he came from a family of artists. However from circa 1724 onwards he worked as a draughtsman and painter.
Troost executed two different compositions of the play Het beslikte Swaantje, and he made two versions of the first composition: one was painted in 1727, now in the Amsterdams Historisch Museum, and another in pastel, now in a Paris private collection (Niemeijer, op. cit., nos. 287S and 288T).
In the second composition of the play the present lot is related to the figure of the jonker [Squire]. This was executed in a number of versions: one in pastel in 1736, another was painted, and is dated 1741, and is now in the Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam (Niemeijer, op. cit., nos. 291T and 189S respectively), there is a watercolour dated 1744 in the Albertina, Vienna, and other versions are mentioned by Niemeijer (op. cit. no. 290T and nos. 292-300T), though some may be dupilicates of those already discussed. There are eleven known figure studies related to this composition, with only the present lot executed in oil. The former ones are probably not preliminary studies, but ricordi, and likely for later use (Niemeijer, op. cit., nos. 301-311).
Troost executed two different compositions of the play Het beslikte Swaantje, and he made two versions of the first composition: one was painted in 1727, now in the Amsterdams Historisch Museum, and another in pastel, now in a Paris private collection (Niemeijer, op. cit., nos. 287S and 288T).
In the second composition of the play the present lot is related to the figure of the jonker [Squire]. This was executed in a number of versions: one in pastel in 1736, another was painted, and is dated 1741, and is now in the Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam (Niemeijer, op. cit., nos. 291T and 189S respectively), there is a watercolour dated 1744 in the Albertina, Vienna, and other versions are mentioned by Niemeijer (op. cit. no. 290T and nos. 292-300T), though some may be dupilicates of those already discussed. There are eleven known figure studies related to this composition, with only the present lot executed in oil. The former ones are probably not preliminary studies, but ricordi, and likely for later use (Niemeijer, op. cit., nos. 301-311).